http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=527428 User ajohansson@novell.com added comment http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=527428#c8 --- Comment #8 from Anders Johansson <ajohansson@novell.com> 2009-09-21 22:53:24 MDT --- To make it a bit clearer what I mean, let me explain the experience I had in installing 11.2 on a system with hdmi as the only sound output. Right from the install, the system was completely silent, because pulseaudio uses the default alsa output. During the installation there was no way of making yast play the test sound. I had to go to the pulseaudio config in kde and change all the sound channels there. Once that was done, kde programs (and other programs that use pulse) could play sound, but everything else was still silent. mplayer, for example, and the flash plugin in firefox, because these do not use pulse. mplayer can be forced to use it, but not flash, as far as I know. I believe YaST should be able to configure the default output channel in asound.conf, because it seems to be the only way of getting the whole system in one go. What we have now will lead an inexperienced user to think his sound is just broken. It's just not usable And, as I said, if we drop pulseaudio, as was discussed by development at least for kde, then we have no clear way of configuring things at all. -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.